National Science Museum of Japan
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The National Science Museum of Japan (国立科学博物館 Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan?) is located in the northeast corner of Ueno park in Tokyo. Opened in 1871 and recently renovated, it offers a wide variety of exhibitions and interactive scientific experiences.
The museum also has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan.
[edit] See also
- List of museums
- National Science Museum - disambiguation page
- Tokyo National Museum
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[edit] Science and industry (3F)
 Japan's first treatise on Western anatomy, published in 1774. |
 A Japanese-made wadokei clockwatch of the 18th century, or Wadokei. |
 A Japanese-made perpetual clockwatch, 1851. |
 Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 perpetual clock |
 Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" Model 21 (cowling removed). |
 Tea-serving karakuri, with mechanism, 19th century. |
 Japan's first electrostatic generator (1776), developed through Rangaku. Static electricity was produced through the friction of a glass tube with a gold-plated stick. The experiments thus obtained were very popular in Edo. |
 A Western book on medicine, translated into Japanese, published in March 1808. |
 Japan's first manual on electric phenomena, published in 1811. |
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